Berkshire arts nonprofits are exploring the need for diversity, equity, fair pay – and for understanding the experiences of their workers and investing in their futures.
Read articleInternational artists on Shaker land — Exploring central Berkshires
We're looking for three international summer artists at Hancock Shaker Village on a summer day and exploring the center of the Berkshires around them.
Read articleQDance channels the energy of contemporary Nigeria
Ten dancers stretch alive with the energy of a party in Lagos. From their city of 16 million people on the coast of Nigeria, they are performing on a world stage.
Read articleExploring Chatham N.Y. in a thunderstorm
There’s something mysterious and unexpected about walking into a greenhouse in a thunderstorm. … I came through a door in Chatham Berry Farm and felt as though I’d walked into another universe.
Read articleRachel E. Gross maps the universe of women’s bodies
‘There are parts of your own body less known than the bottom of the ocean or the surface of mars’ — if you’re a woman ...
Read articleFilmmaker honors Black soldiers in World War I
Jane Louise Van Der Zee’s brother James would become known as one of the central photographers of the Harlem Renaissance — and she was an artist and musician in her own right.
Read articleRobert Blackburn fuels an artform and a community
On a winter night, a man in a wool sweater applies ink in a film of color … In 1947, on West 17th Street in New York, Robert Blackburn founded the oldest artist-operated and directed printmaking workshop in the country.
Read articleIndigenous artists alloy lands and stories at the Forge
In Mohican, Heather Bruegl says, the shape of the language shows one person thinking of another. Between you and I, you come first. She is remembering storyteller and linguist Brock Schreiber, as he spoke at the Forge Project just over the ridge in the Taconics.
Read articleGreenhorns film seeks a new generation of farmers
A child licks the dasher from a hand-crank ice cream maker. A young couple bake bread in a brick oven. Greens sprout in a warehouse in Oakland, and a cheesemonger opens a stall at a green market in Manhattan. ... From Northeast hills to bay-area sprawl, they all belong to a new generation of farmers.
Read articleYoung farmers celebrate the land
They are awake in the dark, washing last week’s milk bottles. They are kneeling in the birthing pen, holding a newborn kid goat. They are setting out seedlings in trays and tuning up the 1940s tractor.
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